Project Management Career Steps
By Dick Billows, PMP Learn about how to get into project management and then how to earn certifications in your specialty area like IT, construction, healthcare, business or consulting. Then learn...
View ArticleReduce Duration
By Dick Billows, PMP Project managers must frequently handle requests to finish earlier. There is a right way to handle these requests and a wrong way. All too often project managers incorrectly handle...
View ArticleLeadership
By Dick Billows, PMP Leading your project team is challenging for many reasons and the lack of formal organizational authority is number one on the list. Project managers need to adapt their style to...
View ArticleWBS
By Dick Billows, PMP The work breakdown structure provides the foundation for project control and much more. But if we adopt a “to do” list approach we lose all the benefits. So consistently successful...
View ArticleProject Variances
By Dick Billows, PMP One of the techniques that separates consistently successful project managers from the rest of the pack is their ability to identify problems early, when they are small and easily...
View ArticleDysfunctional Team
By Dick Billows, PMP During the course of a project management career, every project manager has to deal with a dysfunctional project team. The people on the team may be in that state as a result of...
View ArticleEstimating with the Project Team
By Dick Billows, PMP In this video, we’ll look at a project manager working with her team to develop estimates using the best practices in project management. Specifically, she is using 3-point...
View ArticleProject Team Conflict
By Dick Billows, PMP In this lecture video, we’ll watch a project team in a conflict situation where the project manager uses fairly typical techniques that actually make the conflict worse. I’ll point...
View ArticleProject Tracking Data
By Dick Billows, PMP Dick discusses how to gather good status data from your team members as he hikes the shore of a barrier island off the South Carolina coast. He'll also describe techniques to avoid...
View ArticleProject Sponsor
By Dick Billows, PMP That first session with a new sponsor can determine the project's success. Getting off to a good start requires that you talk persuasively about how you and the executive should...
View ArticleProject Failure
By Dick Billows, PMP Summary: Some organizations have project failure rates that threaten their existence. In some cases they can’t deliver to a customer or client profitably. In other cases they can’t...
View ArticleWhat Is a Project?
By Dick Billows, PMP Wondering about what is a project and what is not? Here is an example of a project. The manager of the department you work in tells you the people are wasting time getting supplies...
View ArticleProject Plan
By Dick Billows, PMP The project plan is the first step in every project. Even if you have succeeded on your first project assignment by working with “seat of your pants” techniques, you need to learn...
View ArticleProject Manager
By Dick Billows, PMP A project manager is a person who has been trained in the specific skills of planning, scheduling, tracking progress, managing teams and other skills needed to successfully manage...
View ArticleWhat is Project Management?
By Dick Billows, PMP What is Project management? It’s about producing something called a deliverable. A deliverable can be a conference table, a highway, a building, computer software, a book, a...
View ArticleAbout Project Management
By Dick Billows, PMP What do landing people on the moon and cleaning up your department’s supply closet have in common? They are both projects. About Project management is producing deliverables like:...
View ArticleDysfunctional Team
By Dick Billows, PMP During the course of a project management career, every project manager has to deal with a dysfunctional project team. The people on the team may be in that state as a result of...
View ArticleCrisis Management
It doesn’t matter if you are the most experienced PM out there or if you just started your career in this field. There will be times when things don’t go your way. As a matter of fact, if things...
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Dysfunctional Team – 4PM.com Lecture Video
By Dick Billows, PMP During the course of a project management career, every project manager has to deal with a dysfunctional project team. The people on the team may be in that state as a result of...
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Stakeholder Management
For a long time stakeholder management has focused on the need to identify your stakeholders so you can surface their requirements for the project. The rationale behind this was that requirements...
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